List,
Confusing image. If the "self" in the last analysis is a "meme" then why
not say in the first place that memes control (first from one view and then
from another)?
Brett
At 11:05 AM 9/22/97 +0100, you wrote:
>> From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom[SMTP:eva-lise@eskimo.com]
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Brett Lane Robertson wrote:
>>
>> > Eva,
>> >
>> > If you draw memes controling you and I draw you controling
>> memes...what does
>> > that have to do with what memes do?
>> >
>> > Brett
>>
>> Everything.
>>
>> My mind is the phenomenon that emerges from the interaction of memes
>> in
>> the environment provided by my genes and circumstances. When I say
>> "my
>> memes control me", I am capturing one aspect of that reality. When I
>> say
>> "I control my memes", I am capturing another. The latter view tells
>> me I
>> can be selective about my beliefs; the former tells me why that's
>> important.
>>
>> Eva,
>> thinking of the Escher engraving of two hands drawing each other
>>
>Nice image, and here's something else to think about: the self
>that controls memes from one point of view and is controlled
>by them from another, is itself a meme.
>
>Robin
>
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